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Prime Minister Gordon Brown has agreed a £910m package of measures aimed at helping people with soaring energy bills, including half price insulation for many households.

The announcement includes:

* Free insulation for pensioners and poor households
* 50% off the cost of insulation for all other households
* A partial reversal of the cut to Warm Front programme giving free central heating to the poorest pensioners

The government's aim is to insulate every home in Britain by 2020.

Worst case scenario mooted recently? Just 13 years for the Arctic ice cap to vanish - completely. That's by 2020. We need to do something about it - NOW. You can help. Insulate your home, make your energy usage more efficient Forget the financial cost, what's the real cost?

We need to do something about it - NOW. You can help. Insulate your home, make your energy usage more efficient Forget the financial cost, what's the real cost?

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Do you receive any of the following benefits or fulfill other eligibility criteria? Then your cavity wall or loft insulation could be FREE! Even if you do NOT qualify, you should be eligible for at least 50% off the cost of insulation.

Attendance Allowance
Council Tax Benefit
Disability Living allowance
Housing Benefit
Pension Credit
Income Support
Income based Job Seekers Allowance
Child Tax Credit (maximum household income of £15,000)
Working Tax Credit (maximum household income of £15,000)
Over 70 years old
State pension is your main source of income

If so, please CLICK HERE. You may be eligible for a 100% grant for loft and / or cavity wall insulation.

Grants of around 40% - 70% are available whatever your income.

Do you receive any of the following benefits or fulfill other eligibility criteria? Then you may well be eligible for a grant of up to £3,500 towards gas central heating or up to £6,000 for oil fired heating, where gas is not feasible.

Attendance Allowance
Council Tax Benefit
Disability Living allowance
Housing Benefit
Pension Credit
Income Support
Income based Job Seekers Allowance
Child Tax Credit (maximum household income of £15,000)
Working Tax Credit (maximum household income of £15,000)
Over 70 years old
State pension is your main source of income

If so, please CLICK HERE. You may be eligible for a £3,500 grant for gas central heating or £6,000 for oil fired heating.

What if you could generate 4 times more heating power than you took from the national grid?

It's possible with a heat pump, which extracts energy from the surroundings, rather than generating it directly from the electricity used.

All matter has thermal energy, which can be efficiently extracted to produce greener, cleaner heat for home or office.

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You can save energy without reducing comfort levels. And save on the cost of that energy too. Solar water heating panels and solar photo-voltaic panels are one major method.

Solar energy - free energy for life. Heat your water and home with solar panels and generate electricity with Solar PV systems.

The cost of solar water heating for an average house is around £4,000 - £5,000. Some funding is available but is on a first come, first served basis and has monthly limits. Want to know more? Click HERE for more information.

NASA designed insulating paints can help save 25% in heating and cooling costs.

Whoever you may be, whether you're a homeowner or a business owner, a building contractor, architect, engineer, etc Thermilate paint additive can help YOU SAVE MONEY.

Designed by NASA, Thermilate paint additive is an excellent way to cut down your carbon footprint and help to save on heating and cooling bills.

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Sunpipe.

Sunpipe - taking sunlight into those places in home or workplace where you have no windows.

Want to know more about Sunpipes? CLICK HERE.

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Heat-Harvester™ is an innovative means of redistributing energy that might otherwise be wasted. Warm air rises and will therefore not be benefitting the room's occupants - especially in high ceilinged rooms.

Heat-Harvester™ does what it says on the tin, harvests wasted energy and returns it to where it's useful.

Suitable for large spaces and high ceilinged rooms, offices, factories, schools, sports halls, Heat-Harvester™ can typically save 30 - 50% on heating bills and runs on only 75 Watts for the largest unit. (and 25 Watts for the smallest - that's under half as much power as a 60W light bulb draws, but can mean a rise in temperature of several degrees!!)

Want to know more about Heat-Harvester™? CLICK HERE.

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Our products are first choice stock lines for several leading national and independent tool hire firms along with hundreds of independent tool shops, fixing companies, plumbers merchants & builder’s merchants.

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Our tile drill produced 46 holes in Grade 5 porcelain tiles in a little over 46 minutes and was ready for more - whilst a well known rival product managed to drill but one hole in 15 minutes - and was then spent.

Save energy manufacturing tools and using tools, think Premier Diamond Products. Click HERE for more information and to enquire about these incredible drills, cores and cutting blades.

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Some reading for you to consider.

Making energy savings, saving money and saving the planet.

Information and publications to help you create healthy and ecological homes and buildings. See Green Building Press
Loft insulation and cavity wall insulation, energy retaining glazing, Heat-Harvester™, Sunpipes, modern gas central heating systems, solar water heating systems, wind turbines (coming soon) ~ all these can help to reduce the amount of energy used in heating and lighting and reduce bills enormously.
Low energy lamps last up to ten times longer than ordinary bulbs and use far less electricity - so you can do your bit towards saving the planet from climate change too.
Remember to turn off lights when you leave a room for long periods.
Use an eco-kettle to boil water for cooking - they're more efficient at getting up to temperature. Avoid over-filling the kettle but be sure to cover the element.
Where you need to use saucepans - use the lid and turn down the heat!! Less energy is lost that way. Highly efficient hobs are now available more news about that later.
Use a toaster rather than the grill to make toast.
Make sure your hot water tank and hot water pipes are fully lagged, this can pay for itself in a few months and go on saving you money for years to come.
Put draught strips around windows and exterior doors. If possible fit a flap across the letter-box.
Where possible wait until you have a full load before using your washing machine.
If you use a dishwasher select the low-temperature programme unless you have very soiled dishes.
If you have a dripping tap ensure it is repaired quickly. In just one day, you could waste enough hot water to fill a bath.
Switch off your TV, video and Hi-Fi at the set. Standby can use as much as 10%-60% of the power that would be used by the device if it was switched on.
Defrost fridges and freezers regularly to keep them running efficiently.
Shower if possible, rather than take a bath, this saves money and water.
At night, pull all curtains to stop heat loss through the windows. Take care not to drape curtains over radiators as this will funnel heat straight out of the windows.
Don't set your water thermostat too high; 60°C/140°F is usually adequate for bathing and washing.
Reducing your room temperature by just 1°C can cut as much as 10% off your heating bills.
Turn off the tap whilst brushing your teeth. If everyone in the country did so, it would save millions of litres of wasted water every DAY!! Producing and transporting water is expensive and uses energy.

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